Telus delays Alberta fibre optic network, blames Ottawa’s Huawei ban
network build in the city of St. Albert and elsewhere in Alberta, raising questions over the sanction’s spillover effects on connectivity in smaller communities.
“They have had to dismantle the Huawei infrastructure on all of their antennas and so primarily we’re seeing pressures on the capital that they had available for all the builds across Alberta,” she said.The federal government announced in May 2022 it was banning Huawei from involvement in Canada’s 5G wireless network, along with ZTE, another Chinese state-backed telecommunications firm, though it had been mulling the move since 2019.
Telus, which at the time used Huawei radio equipment in non-core portions of its 3G and 4G wireless networks, said in 2019 it did not believe Huawei posed a major risk to national security. “Some people on one side of the street can get the service and on the other side of the street they can’t,” said Killick, whose motion at council, which passed, called on Mayor Cathy Heron to write a letter to Telus requesting the company honour its original commitment.
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